My Favorite End of the World Thing Ever...

Hey folks, Harry here - and I don't think this particular work of genius is being discussed today. I know everyone is breaking out their favorite End of the World films, TV episodes, literature, music... you name it, people are writing it.

When I was a little kid. I'm talking about the age of the girl in this episode of TALES OF TOMORROW - the episode was titled A CHILD IS CRYING and it was the first time I thought about the end of the world. The episode sent a chill down my spine as a kid. Made me pay attention to Atomic Bomb drills at school and I began to learn about the Apocalypse, that we all seem so damn happy about.

Now sit back and enjoy... A CHILD IS CRYING. Good luck sleeping tonight!

...just in time for the end of the world. The fucktard who publishes the thing is obviously drunk, or on meds, as if you needed that extra bit of despair to justify paranoid ramblings about holographic Jesi stirring up the rednecks, Home Alone-like booby traps set in the yard for the coming Mad Maxian marauders, and calling John Boehner "Mitzy" for being a weepy-eyed milksop. These things come naturally in the End of Days, with or without booze. Some call it desperation. Others a much-needed return to sanity.
The Savage Times is a pseudo newspaper written in a Gonzo style that they call Gonzoid. It is obviously pissed and deranged. If you enjoyed Hunter S. Thompson before he blew his brains out (or even after), you might check it out. If you didn't like him, nothing can help you, he was a genius. A genius that would shoot shit up drunk, but a genius nevertheless; regardless, everything is about to end as we speak. Publishing the thing is a supreme act of futility.
thesavagetimes.com

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Harry your a piece of shit what if it was your nephew who died would you laugh then?
useless cunt how can someone so fat and ugly be so confident?
DIE

and bought it. The end of Playstation: The Official Magazine with the new 'alternate universe' (?) Dante for DmC on the cover, that is. Just like Nintendo Power, Playstation's official mag will not see any future issues from 2012. The company that owns both np and POM also publishes Xbox's official mag so I'm sure they will prolly follow. The end, at least for a lot of print media, is upon us.

Prometheus is open-ended in the same way that a book missing pages or a movie missing a reel is "mysterious."
It's not that there is some mind-blowing (or even intriguing) mystery to be pondered or ultimately solved. It's just that the storytellers left out key elements of the story.

If the only problem with Prometheus was the unanswered questions, the a sequel could salvage things, however Prometheus's problems are SO much deeper than just that. There's so many instances of characters behaving in inconceivable ways and making huge jumps in logic with zero basis for their reasoning beyond the need for the plot to advance to yet another ill conceived point, followed by none of the other characters raising any objections to the completely unreasoned courses of action being taken. The script in turn presents all this nonsensical character behavior and "reasoning" as if its perfectly sound. There's also some major plot holes, some poorly thought out plot-twists, several virtually improbable coincidences that are likely impossible to solve in a sequel, no matter how hard it tries. On top of that, the whole story of the engineers is shit anyways. Even if you ignore all of the gaping problems with Prometheus, you're still stuck with the fact that the entire idea of the engineers and the mission to visit them is basically at odds with itself. Everything in Prometheus is trying to present the idea of humans getting in over their heads and encountering something that's unimaginably bizarre, distant, unrelatable, and alien, while conveying the smallness and fragility of humans in the universe. The problem with the Prometheus, though, is that it takes the Space Jockey, which already was VERY bizarre, distant, unrelatable, and alien, and then reduces ALL of those qualities by changing it from a true alien into instead just a helmeted human-like being with genetic and historical ties back to our previous small, but apparently now important corner of the galaxy. It's like trying to run a marathon but then intentionally shooting yourself in the foot two steps into the race.

...I can't help thinking there should have been one last plot twist, though by 1951 standards it was just fine. No doubt if somebody did it now we'd find out that Lily and her "others" were preparing the attack themselves, or so on...

...I thought the same thing. I went to school in the 60s and 70s(graduating in 77) and I never went through one of those bomb drills. I saw films of them but I think by the mid 60's that stuff was over. Of course, maybe Harry went to some backwoods, ultra conservative small town school that still think that Darwin fella was off his rocker.

I knew it was a Bradbury story but I became familar with the story through Suspense.
If you haven't heard it go the OTR website. Turn the lights off, sit in a big comfy chair. pour yourself a glass of port, and enjoy.

I just thought it would be nice to have a little X-Files thread in remembrance of of the series and movies, although I don't really want to remember that last movie.
Maybe I'm the only person who cares.

My favourite was in LAST NIGHT, a Canadian production. The world ends at midnight from unspecified causes and everyone is getting ready. Cut to a guy at a desk. Works for the gas company and he's calling customers from a list to thank them for their patronage and telling them the company will try to keep things going as long as it can.
Guy doesn't have a life outside work, you can tell. World's coming to an end and he doesn't know what else to do. Sad, really.

in the middle of Americans largest Farming area; so Central California was a Major targeted area for the USSR.
And I can't tell you what a Nuclear Drill is like...because I've NEVER experienced one. Ever...as in not in my lifetime. I heard the old Air Raid sirens ONCE when I was about 5...that was the last time they were checked, because by 1973 or 74 there were outdated and useless...just like the Duck and Cover drills.
So...unless the Soviets were targeting the massive population of Redneck Hippies that populate Austin...I doubt those were Nuclear Drills.
Maybe they just wanted you guys to clean the gum off the bottom of your desks.

Not bad, funny and bittersweet- then spent the night dreaming I was living out the scenario- very emotional dream, but awoke feeling very content. <BR>
Ohhhhhh! Oh we will all char together when we char.
<BR>And let there be no moaning of the bar.
<BR>Just sing out a te deum
<BR>When you see that i.c.b.m.,
<BR>And the party will be "come as you are."

...they took pity on us and thought we should be included in the fun.
Honestly, I'd rather get vaporized than have to deal with my post-nuke neighbours. If you've seen those 'prepper' shows, a lot of them aren't playing with a full case of survival rations. I know of one guy in my hometown, a guy in the oil business, who built a new home in the area in the last ten years, complete with nuke shelter. And believe me you wouldn't want him as a neighbour pre-nuke or post-nuke.
This is probably why I don't really like The Walking Dead. haha

She did guest starring work during the "Golden Age of Television" on such live dramas as Omnibus, Suspense, Danger, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Robert Montgomery Presents, TALES OF TOMORRO, and Kraft Theatre, and starred in such "spectaculars" as Kiss and Tell and Alice in Wonderland. She worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson, and writers such as Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling, and such actors as Boris Karloff, Rosalind Russell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cliff Robertson.

She did guest starring work during the "Golden Age of Television" on such live dramas as Omnibus, Suspense, Danger, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Robert Montgomery Presents, Tales of Tomorrow, and Kraft Theatre, and starred in such "spectaculars" as Kiss and Tell and Alice in Wonderland. She worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson, and writers such as Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling, and such actors as Boris Karloff, Rosalind Russell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cliff Robertson

They stopped doing the emergency drills in 1988. Only the children who were deemed the most likely to rebuild a superior society were required to practice surviving an atomic attack. The other kids were not supposed to be informed, because survival supplies were limited. Don't you remember the secret orientation? Wait...er, forget I said that. Just kidding. Really.

If you like really, really talky sci fi stuff.
Also, Harry's either older than he's let on or completely lost it. Duck and cover. Perhaps he's just remembering the time he watched The Iron Giant while on dope.